| Name | Year | known for |
| Simon van der Meer | |
| Martin Lewis Perl | |
| David J. Gross | |
| Donald Glaser | |
| Claude Cohen-Tannoudji | |
| Jean Baptiste Perrin | |
| James Franck | |
| Sin-Itiro Tomonaga | |
| Alfred Kastler | |
| Percy Bridgman | |
| Igor Yevgenyevich Tamm | |
| Steven Chu | |
| Max von Laue | |
| Robert B. Laughlin | |
| Charles Glover Barkla | |
| Ivar Giaever | |
| Nicolaas Bloembergen | |
| Phillip von Lenard | |
| John Bardeen | |
| Hannes Olof Gösta Alfvén | |
| Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa | |
| Robert Hofstadter | |
| Sheldon Lee Glashow | |
| Albert A. Michelson | |
| Heike Kamerlingh-Onnes | |
| Lawrence Bragg | |
| Leo James Rainwater | |
| Cecil Frank Powell | |
| Luis Walter Alvarez | |
| Peter Grünberg | |
| Horst Ludwig Störmer | |
| Patrick Blackett | |
| John Bardeen | |
| Max Planck | |
| John Robert Schrieffer | |
| Burton Richter | |
| Max Born | |
| Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen | |
| Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar | |
| Henry Way Kendall | |
| Robert Woodrow Wilson | |
| Riccardo Giacconi | |
| Arthur Compton | |
| Joseph Hooton Taylor, Jr. | |
| Philip Warren Anderson | |
| Nils Gustaf Dalen | |
| Lev Davidovich Landau | |
| Henri Becquerel | |
| Heinrich Rohrer | |
| Arthur Leonard Schawlow | |
| Marie Curie | |
| Val Logsdon Fitch | |
| Kai Manne Börje Siegbahn | |
| Daniel Chee Tsui | |
| Louis de Broglie | |
| Tsung-Dao Lee | |
| Gerd Binnig | |
| Gerardus 't Hooft | |
| Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov | |
| Jensen.jpg J. Hans D. Jensen | |
| Louis Néel | |
| Edward Victor Appleton | |
| | Name | Year | known for |
| William Daniel Phillips | |
| H. David Politzer | |
| Bertram Brockhouse | |
| Carl Anderson | |
| Gabriel Lippman | |
| Anthony James Leggett | |
| Carl Edwin Wieman | |
| John Douglass Cockcroft | |
| Manne Siegbahn | |
| Walter Brothe | |
| Yoichiro Nambu | |
| Arno Allan Penzias | |
| Klaus von Klitzing | |
| Makoto Kobayashi | |
| Leon Neil Cooper | |
| Roy J. Glauber | |
| Eugene Paul Wigner | |
| Polykarp Kusch | |
| Dennis Gabor | |
| Martin Ryle | |
| Clinton Davisson | |
| Isidor Isaac Rabi | |
| John L. Hall | |
| Ernest Walton | |
| Melvin Schwartz | |
| Charles Thomas Rees Wilson | |
| Julian Schwinger | |
| William Bragg | |
| Douglas D. Osheroff | |
| Frits Zernike | |
| Karl Ferdinand Braun | |
| Hans Albrecht Bethe | |
| Johannes Stark | |
| Maria Goeppert-Mayer | |
| Eric Allin Cornell | |
| Willard S. Boyle | |
| Ernst Ruska | |
| Vitaly Lazarevich Ginzburg | |
| George Thomson | |
| Aage Bohr | |
| Leo Esaki | |
| Owen Richardson | |
| Leon Max Lederman | |
| Johannes Diderik van der Waals | |
| Pierre Curie | |
| Il'ya Frank | |
| Toshihide Maskawa | |
| William Alfred Fowler | |
| Gustav Hertz | |
| Walter Brattain | |
| Jerome I. Friedman | |
| John C. Mather | |
| Otto Stern | |
| Samuel Chao Chung Ting | |
| Aleksandr Prokhorov | |
| Wolfgang Ketterle | |
| Victor Hess | |
| Paul Dirac | |
| J.J. Thompson | |
| Guglielmo Marconi | |
| Wolfgang Pauli | |
| Frank Wilczek | |
| | Name | Year | known for |
| Norman Foster Ramsey | |
| Nevill Francis Mott | |
| Ernest Lawrence | |
| Herbert Kroemer | |
| Carlo Rubbia | |
| Willis Lamb | |
| Ben Roy Mottelson | |
| George E. Smith | |
| Pieter Zeeman | |
| John Hasbrouck Van Vleck | |
| Erwin Shrodinger | |
| Enrico Fermi | |
| Chen Ning Yang | |
| Johannes Georg Bednorz | |
| Raymond Davis, Jr. | |
| Lord Rayleigh | |
| Jack St. Clair Kilby | |
| David Morris Lee | |
| Robert Milikan | |
| Antony Hewish | |
| Niels Bohr | |
| William Shockley | |
| Albert Fert | |
| George F. Smoot | |
| Charles K. Kao | |
| Werner Heisenburg | |
| Richard E. Taylor | |
| Steven Weinberg | |
| Chandrasekhara Raman | |
| Richard Phillips Feynman | |
| Robert Coleman Richardson | |
| Nicolay Gennadiyevich Basov | |
| Russell Alan Hulse | |
| Theodor W. Hänsch | |
| Murray Gell-Mann | |
| Hans Georg Dehmelt | |
| Emilio Gino Segrè | |
| Martinus J. G. Veltman | |
| Wolfgang Paul | |
| Abdus Salam | |
| Hideki Yukawa | |
| Edward Purcell | |
| Zhores Ivanovich Alferov | |
| Rudolf Mössbauer | |
| Owen Chamberlain | |
| Masatoshi Koshiba | |
| Frederick Reines | |
| Georges Charpak | |
| James Chadwick | |
| Karl Alexander Müller | |
| Charles Guillaume | |
| Pierre-Gilles de Gennes | |
| Brian David Josephson | |
| Felix Bloch | |
| Charles Hard Townes | |
| Albert Einstein | |
| Hendrik Lorentz | |
| Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov | |
| Clifford Glenwood Shull | |
| Jack Steinberger | |
| Kenneth G. Wilson | |
| Wilhelm Wien | |
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